Microsoft Kinect

Here at Gamescom -- as you might expect -- you're gonna see a lot of games. Not all of them are finished, but even the beta versions come with complex worlds, and shiny new physics engines. Amongst all of these creations, jostling for our attention, was something a little different. Something we...

Microsoft has had an indecisive month or two recently, contemplating a series of U-turns in its attempts to compete with the forthcoming PlayStation 4. But now, it seems to have settled on a final decision about one of the most controversial flip-flops : every Xbox One WILL come with a Kinect . Read

Microsoft has changed several key Xbox One policies to better compete with Sony's PlayStation 4, but this much is still guaranteed: every Xbox One will come with a Kinect . They won't be sold seperately. That's the word from Microsoft corporate vice president Phil Harrison. At Gamescom, he told CVG...

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Microsoft is having its big Gamescom 2013 shindig at Cologne, and just announced some new Xbox One game titles. Fable Legend s, which our sister site Joystiq espied earlier, will arrive exclusively to the new console, along with Fighter Within . The latter title (also previously rumored ) takes...

Microsoft just flaunted some of Project Spark 's gaming powers at Gamescom 2013 in Cologne: motion and voice capture. If you'll recall, the platform enables gamers to create their own digital spaces for games using the Xbox One's integrated Kinect sensor and the upcoming SmartGlass . Microsoft's...

While Gamescom is still technically yet to begin, the Microsoft tanks have already arrived in Cologne. We've already been gifted with some details about new titles , but we also managed to get a little more intimate with the new Kinect. You know, the one you there's been all that fuss about . But...

If, like us, you constantly prod your desk or a nearby white wall in the hope that one day it will magically transform into a touchscreen device, then Ubi is what you have been waiting for. Created by Seattle startup Ubi Interactive, and originally announced back in August 2012, Ubi's software uses...

It seems that with Kinect on the Xbox One, there's more than meets the camera's eye. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft for the first time has built its own processor in-house, and it's destined for Kinect. Oddly, there's been no mention of where the chip is actually being built, and there's really...